New York: July 4th Coalition, 1976. Red, white, & blue poster (17 x 23 inches) offset-printed with union bug on bottom left corner. Social justice group advocating for counter-demonstrations in Philadelphia during the federally-organized bicentennial celebrations. These protests were directed against the inherent imbalances in American colonial values and the.....
Paris: Presence Africaine, 1956. Saddle-stapled in printed card wraps. 16pp. Open letter to Maurice Thorez, then-leader of the French Communist Party, from Martinique poet and critic Aime Cesaire detailing his reasons for his resignation from the party soon after the Congress of Negro Intellectuals. This copy from the library of.....
Chicago: American Library Association, 1933. Saddle-stapled in typographic wraps. 4-3/4" x 6-3/4". 64 pp. In 1933, Dr. Alain Locke was asked to write this booklet on African-American history and survey of sociology, which was accompanied by a glossary of recommended books to assist in his course by Edwin R. Embree.....
New Hyde Park: University Books, 1970. Hardcover octavo (5-7/8 x 8-1/2 inches) cream cloth boards with red spine titles in illustrated dust jacket, publisher's black topstain, 368 pp.
Berlin: Der Syndikalist, 1922. Signature-bound octavo (6-1/2 x 9 inches) in printed wraps, 38 pp. The second booklet in the "Russian Revolution Series", preceded by The Russian Tragedy and followed by The Kronstadt Rebellion. Published by Der Syndikalist, the main media organ of the Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschlands (FAUD)---Free Workers'.....
Los Angeles: Stealth Publications, No Date [ca 1982]. Velo-bound [quarto] in blue printed card stock wrappers. 122 pp. Comprehensive guide to establishing fake identity documentation and practice, clandestinely circulated and printed, often advertised in the back of "Soldier of Fortune" magazine.
New York: Jerry Poynton, 1996. Japanese four-hole (yotsume toji) bound quarto (8 x 10-1/2 inches) in printed brown cardstock wraps, [48] pages. Memorial program for Herbert Huncke (January 9, 1915 - August 8, 1996), whose remembrance happened at the Friends Meetinghouse at Stuyvesant Park in New York City, 221 East.....
Japan: Gakken, 1985. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight binding, some fraying along front edge of spine, light shelving and handling wear. Slipcase is in good condition, some rubbing and light fraying along edges and front and rear panel of case, light soiling, still sturdy.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Jacket photographs Leroy McLucas. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, black and gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 415 pp. The autobiographical novel depicting life in Harlem post-World War II and on the brink of the American civil rights movement. Translated internationally since.....
London: Calder & Boyars, 1968. Jacket design by Brian Catchpole. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 117 pp. Second published novel of Guyanese painter and author Denis Williams.
San Francisco: Artspace Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover, 6-3/8" x 8-1/4", illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, no dust jacket, [1-10] 11-13 [14-15] 16-20 [21] 22 [23] 24 [25] 26-31 [32] 33-36 [37-40] 41-46 [47] 48 [49] 50-52 [53] 54 [55-56]. Dennis Cooper and Nayland Blake collide in Jerk! Title page signature.....
East Rockaway: Film Workshop, March / April 1962. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches) in photo-illustrated b&w wraps, 8 pp. Early publication of the emerging American avant-garde cinema movement with articles by Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Jonas Mekas, Joseph Le Suer, Seymour Stern, Ian Hugo, Anais Nin, Joseph Marzano; plus.....
![Item #3960 The Puerto Rican Diaspora : Themes in the Survival of a People [Signed]. Frank Espada](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3960.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789658655)
[San Francisco]: Frank Espada, 2006. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated French wraps. Oblong quarto. 191pp; b&w plates. Photobook by Puerto Rican photojournalist and community organizer Frank Espada (1930–2014) documenting Puerto Rican communities across the United States and the archipelago. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs, with texts by Espada throughout, along with brief.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First U.S. edition. Hardcover, octavo, embossed brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, publisher's black top stain, 132 pp. The epic poem of a generational spaceship making an escape from earthly cataclysm only to avoid a tragic crash with space trash forcing.....
![Item #3503 Negro Workaday Songs [signed]. Howard W. Odum, Guy B. Johnson](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3503.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739712757)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (6-1/4 x 9 inches). Black cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and spine. Inscribed by Odum to front free endpaper. xii, 278pp. First Edition of this early work on African-American musicology from American sociologist Howard.....
![Item #3597 Siqueiros [typewritten MS with holograph notations]. Hugo Gellert](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3597.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741132175)
n.p., [ca 1965]. Working draft copy. Single-sided manuscript pages (8-1/2 x 11 inches) recto-only, pp.1-3 carbon copy paper, p. 4 two fragmentary typewritten sheets glued together. Pen and pencil notations and edits throughout, all in Gellert's hand. Mostly carbon-copy manuscript with holograph notation from the artist Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), one.....
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1911. First edition. Disbound saddle-staple binding, octavo (4-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches) in illustrated blue wraps, [1], 45, [46: ads] pp. Editorial pamphlet of de Angulo's (1887-1950) review of Madrid psychology professor, L. Simarro's (1851-1921) two-volume work on "The Trial of Ferrer and European.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1963. First printing. Signature-bound octavo in illustrated wraps, 277 pp. Uncorrected proof first printing of John A. Williams' 3rd novel Sissie.
Tokyo: Libro Port Publishers, 1988. Perfect-bound (9 x 10-3/4 inches) in illustrated dust jacket. White glossy wraps, full color illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Signed by artist. Published on the occasion of the Japanese painter's show "Picaro", consisting of 90 painting from 1987 and 1988. Signed here to title page in black.....
New York]: [Boke Press], [1967]. First Edition. Softcover quarto, staple-bound in B&W paper wrappers, unpaginated with text and drawings on rectos [24]. Twelve pages each of text and poems for each month of the calendar year, 1967. While Elmslie and Brainard would go on to collaborate many times, this is.....
New York: Soft Skull Press, 1994. First Edition. Perfect-bound in pictorial card wraps (6-1/4" x 5-1/2"). 77pp. First Edition of this travelogue from writer and musician Lee Ranaldo, best known as a founding member of Sonic Youth. One of the earliest titles (#7) on the tenacious indie Soft Skull Press.....
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1967. Jacket design by Herbert Temple. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 401 pp.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Oatmeal cloth with titles in black to spine and top board. Illustrated end papers, black topstain. [128]pp; b&w illus. The first novel by American writer and architect Madeline Gins (1941-2014); a high-point of American experimental literature. With drawings.....
Newark: Revolutionary Communist League (M.L.M.), [1977]. Side-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in photo-illustrated black and white wraps, [14] pp. The Revolutionary Communist League (of Newark) formed in 1974, evolving there out of the continued black liberation and black nationalist movement, geographically-specific of the late 1960s and early 1970s...
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1977. First Edition. Stapled gray pictorial card wraps [octavo], printed with blue and black ink, 16 pp. First edition, unsigned (not one of the 100 numbered or 26 lettered signed editions) of Smith's early poetry chapbook put forth by Gotham Book Mart in 1977, five.....